Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Goodbye dry January — 5 years ago

Joe Lucca

9.7

Pairing tip; Beautiful and amazing people go well with great wine. This 2014 is singing perfectly right now, however will continue to evolve nicely with some additional age. Racy, fresh, and vibrant. Green apple skin, citrus, chalk, and oyster shells. A clean salinity carries loads of minerals, citrus blossoms, and some unripe nectarine. And that acidity! This is alive and electrifying; like French kissing a 220 volt outlet. Lightning in a bottle. Sort of like the wonderful, exciting people in the picture. ⚡️ Popping a Raveneau is great, but sharing it with my friends was lightning across the mid-summer night sky. — 7 years ago

with Anne-marie and Ron

Jay Kline

9.1

Popped and poured; consumed over four hours. Needed some time to open but already entering a much better, more pleasant place than when these were released. The nose is loaded with fresh brambles and underbrush. After about three hours of air, it also added a sort of spiced meat element. Lip smacking dark forest fruits on the palate. Wonderful balance. This is my sort of Zinfandel. Still a young pup...the future is bright for these. Drink now with a long decant or hold. Best after 2019. — 7 years ago

Oscar More

9.1

Vino acido y muy mineral. Aroma a piedra que sigue en la boca con un punto de aguja al inicio de la botella. Muy fresco y original. Descubriniento — 8 years ago

Christine Havens

8.9

Sauvage is the world that comes to mind when describing this signular and biodynamically farmed, wild ferment Vinhão. Aromas of smoky plum and earth are rendered more complex by a sort of feral, animal quality that persists on the palate as well. A bold streak of acidity creates a sense of tension to sour cherry notes firmly anchored in damp tilth, preserved game, steeped green tea, and pink peppercorn. This won't be to everyone's taste, but for the adventurous, I say, go for it. 11.0% ABV | Sample — 9 years ago

Pere Carles Subira

9.1

It us not pinot noir. It's riesling — 9 years ago

Saman Hosseini

Writer Maison Abattoir

8.9

The 'Nicole Kidman vintage' according to Bruno Borie. The reputation here with grape selection is evident; its tightly wound but really no hard edges. The new oak aromatics pervade for atleast the 1st hour, but it's sort of regal rather than gaudy. Firm black fruits, medium body, and some incense and leather on the finish. Silky tannins, lots of finesse for a young Cabernet dominant blend. — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.2

Ripping texture with that youthful sizzle, but even though this feels bone-dry it's not that sharp, punishing style of trocken. There is nice, fleshy, melony fruit that even has a sort of gentle sauvignon blanc-type character in the leftovers the next day once that immediate sizzle calms down. Also while it's very mineral it's not dark Mosel slate, it's chalky and so clean and flowery you could make a bath soap out of it. — 10 years ago

Alex Alvärëz

9.9

A wine like this puts things in perspective. It puts all the winemakers making clumsy, oxidized skin-contact whites to shame. A beautiful wine, the sort of thing you always want to have a bottle of in the fridge. — 11 years ago

Louis Schofield

Sommelier/Wine Merchant East End Cellars

9.0

Whoa chill out — 12 years ago

LM Segal

9.2

Fantastic and reasonably priced, rich and big-bodied Tuscan. Lots of wood and beef blood with a jammy component. Compelling nose of brambly dark red fruit. Leather all about, which shouldn’t surprise anyone in a wine made by Ferragamo... I’d give this a year or two to sort out, score likely to improve. Cipriani @ Wynn LV (which Foursquare couldn’t find, I hate that app) — 6 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.2

Candy. That sort of transcendent cotton candy not dense at all just weightless and so so slutty. Just what I was looking for. — 7 years ago

Bret Barker

8.9

Birthday wine tasting-not a bad bottle in the bunch! We had two mags of this and well. It was disappointing. Not a lot of fruit or structure. They weren’t shot just sort of there. It really stood out against the Conterno and flaccianello — 7 years ago

with Ben, Jason and 1 other

Wine Weirdos

9.8

This is the sort of epiphany about Madeira or Port I've been waiting to have. Served as part of a savory course at Clove Club in London.

Any sweet element of this wine has relaxed to the background and gorgeous acid accompanies complex burnt citrus and smoky, nutty stone fruit. 45 second finish. — 8 years ago

Christine Havens

9.3

Sampled at a dinner with the charming Karen MacNeil seated directly across from me, legends Bill Harlan and Andrea Robinson at the table behind me. The Opus One 2006 sang—one long, melodic, satiny chord drenched in wild blueberries, steeped blackberries, and black raspberry. It unfurls slowly, releasing a daub of incense, then sandalwood, anise, dark chocolate shavings, and camphor. It is suave and sexy—a white tie and tails sort of wine combining power and freshness, finishing in dried herbs and graphite. #WineWritersSymposium2017 — 8 years ago

Jon Ruyle

9.7

So intense, so complex, so long, so elegant, so beautiful. Unlike other CDPs I've tried- more black fruit mixed with the blue, the finish more fruit than herbs. It was sort of cab-like. So much going on here. I loved this. A great birthday wine! — 9 years ago

Devin Bray

8.9

A burly, intense wine, better on the second day, developing some notes of canned lychee or peach in syrup to go with the heavy Diesel/petrol notes dominating both nose and palate. Finish sort of drops right off, leaving a plastic/curiously blank note. Interesting but not perfect. — 9 years ago

Sam Decker

9.0

Have a cold, but here's the palate anyway: creamy and sort of weightless on tip of the tongue, and bitter beneath it and on the sides. The top of the mouth and throat sting a little from the alcohol. There's an exotic bitterness or a firmness trapped somewhere within the blankets of its buttery transparent exterior. — 10 years ago

Tony McClung

President Scarpetta Wine

9.5

I am happy as a clam! Racy and minerally. I wish we could do this sort of mineral in the US. — 10 years ago

Ryan Brazell

Rise Over Run

9.0

Like a hard-edged, rustic Santenay. But not without charm. Woodsy, feral and bright. Would pair well with food, if you're into that sort of thing. — 11 years ago

Jay Kline

9.5

And they call this their “second” wine. After McHenry in Santa Cruz, Seavey was an absolute show stopper for me on our recent trip to wine country. We had the opportunity to try five different wines with three bonus pours from recent and library wines and I tell you: All 👏🏼 eight 👏🏼 were 👏🏼 bangers 👏🏼. From their Chardonnay (which was sprung on us the moment we arrived, was acid driven and had the most delightful spine of minerals that I could have sworn it was GC Chablis), to their Rosé (which is a Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot blend and bends what’s possible with the genre) to their Founder’s Reserve (which didn’t present much in the value dept. but was a killer wine nevertheless). Anyway, this 2005 Caravina is positively singing right now. Opulent amounts of plums, cassis, brambles, and sweet tobacco with secondary characteristics juuuuust starting to make their appearance: leather, truffle, and forest floor. Moderate acid. Firm tannins still! What a beauty...in a sort of masculine way. America! — 6 years ago

Jake Baker

9.6

My favorite flavor profile of sort of bready cider — 7 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.1

Getting some air before we approach... To be paired with a beautiful piece of Halibut poaching in the oven now.

Ok, this is an interesting bottle...For certain appears oxidized in the glass, but it's not (really). The nose has some sort of clementine/tangerine thing happening with citrus pith and white flowers, maybe a touch on the oxidative but the bottle is still recently opened. The palate has acidity, almonds, pear and honey, medium-short finish. A very intriguing bottle...Go seek one out! — 7 years ago

Pooneet K

8.9

Nice orange wine from Georgia. Gives the impression of sweetness without actually being sweet. Some real grip without tannins, sort of an interesting orange wine mouthfeel. Nice. — 8 years ago

Greg Gregory

8.9

Sort of like Cilantro, you either love it or hate it. Just not my thing. Eau du Barnyard on steroids. — 8 years ago

Hao Feng

9.2

It's a crime to drink it after powerful Meursaults, sort of overshadowed by the long finish of previous wines, but it still feels quite subtled with nuances of honey/oak driven, well balanced structure, yellow Apple acidity and intense minerality. It pretty much represents the subtlety and minerality of Puligny-Montrachet — 9 years ago

Matt

9.0

Ballin on a budget (sort of). Baby CNDP. Layers of dark fruits ranging from ripe, to jam, to dried. Blackberry juice, dried figs, roasted plums, black raspberries, powdered sugar. Enough garrigue and meaty charm, licorice, peppercorns, cocoa, cloves, spices, sweet tannins and forest. All this classic CNDP character and density on a approachable frame. Crushed it w/roasted lamb gyros. — 9 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

8.9

Great producer in Muscadet, where this wine will soon become a Cru designated bottling. Very high mineratility with a sort of nectarine like fruit in the background. — 10 years ago

Rafael Landestoy

9.4

Def needs to be decanted. Had a barnyardy and sort of sauerkrauty nose to it when initially opened but was nice on the palate. Brownish in color. After the funky smell blew off it really freshened up and was absolutely delicious. — 11 years ago

with Ilida

Petra Thieriot

Owner/Importer Dee Vine Wines

10

Here are the sort of beverages we indulge in when we r on vacation--house white & house red so to speak:-) #Riesling #Keller @SummerRiesling — 12 years ago

with Dade